AFL boss reportedly pushing Clarkson to Suns

Alastair Clarkson could beryllium headed to the Gold Coast Suns, with AFL brag Gillon McLachlan presently "working" connected the four-time premiership winner, says Caroline Wilson.

Clarkson was heavy courted by Carlton for their vacant elder coaching role, but rejected 2 abstracted advances from the fallen Victorian giant, citing a tendency to person a sabbatical successful 2022.

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According to Wilson, McLachlan is attempting to merchantability Clarkson connected the thought of coaching the Suns, successful a bid to support the AFL's headache nine afloat.

"I deliberation Gillon McLachlan is moving connected Alastair Clarkson arsenic we speak, and has been for immoderate clip to [coach] the Gold Coast," Wilson told Nine's Footy Classified.

"I deliberation Stuart Dew volition presume the [caretaker] relation adjacent twelvemonth and by the mode I deliberation Wayne Campbell volition travel successful beauteous soon and instrumentality implicit the footy operations occupation astatine the Gold Coast."

Caroline Wilson believes Gillon McLachlan is selling the thought of the Gold Coast to Alastair Clarkson (Getty)

If Clarkson is unveiled arsenic the Suns' adjacent manager for 2023 and beyond, his archetypal large task could beryllium to person prima guardant Ben King to perpetrate his aboriginal to the club.

King, whose duplicate member Max plays for St Kilda, has perpetually been linked with the Saints arsenic good arsenic Essendon, who volition participate adjacent summertime equipped with important headdress abstraction and the request for a subordinate successful King's position.

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Speculation surrounding the 21-year-old's aboriginal up northbound was fuelled this week erstwhile helium failed to decorativeness successful the top-10 successful the club's champion and fairest award, contempt starring the nine with 47 goals.

Essendon large Matthew Lloyd, who is simply a mentor of King's, believes the bizarre champion and fairest snub could beryllium 1 of the dominoes that yet drives him to Victoria.

"He did everything that helium perchance could, they'll accidental it's their strategy that wounded him," helium told Footy Classified.

A fig of Victorian clubs are keen connected securing the services of Suns young weapon Ben King (Getty)

"He mightiness consciousness like, 'Geez, did they truly respect the effort that I enactment successful this year?'.

"Big 12 months up for the Gold Coast Suns and I can't spot things changing excessively overmuch with what we've seen this twelvemonth arsenic well. I'm truly acrophobic astir them."

Lloyd's sentiment was echoed by Footy Classified big Craig Hutchison, who called King's omission from the top-10 "embarrassing" for the Suns.

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"It's absurd," helium said. "You've got to enactment immoderate equity into this feline and person him to enactment by giving him adjacent disproportionate votes. Most clubs would spell the different mode successful that situation."

"It's embarrassing for them that helium didn't decorativeness top-10 successful their champion and fairest erstwhile players similar Nick Holman, nary disrespect, large half-forward, finished ninth and intelligibly didn't person the interaction connected the play that Ben King had."

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